Richard Doyle
(1824 - 1883)
Richard “Dickie” Doyle came from a family of artists that included his father John Doyle and two brothers James and Charles. He was the uncle of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
Like Andrew Wyeth, he learned to draw from his father and completed his first book illustrations at the age of twelve.
He illustrated works by Dickens and Thackeray and specialized in fairy tales, including The King of the Golden River and his masterpiece In Fairyland by William Allingham.
The illustrations were later the subject of a book by Andrew Lang entitled The Princess Nobody.
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Bibliography
Punch Volume 15 (1848)
A British humor, satire and news magazine, famous for its illustrations, including those first designated as ‘cartoons.’
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Punch Volume 16 (1849)
A British humor, satire and news magazine, famous for its illustrations, including those first designated as ‘cartoons.’
Et al
Punch Volume 17 (1849)
A British humor, satire and news magazine, famous for its illustrations, including those first designated as ‘cartoons.’
Et al
Punch Volume 18 (1850)
A British humor, satire and news magazine, famous for its illustrations, including those first designated as ‘cartoons.’
Et al
Punch Volume 4 (1843)
A British humor, satire and news magazine, famous for its illustrations, including those first designated as ‘cartoons.’ Read online at Google.
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Punch Volume 5 (1843)
A British humor, satire and news magazine, famous for its illustrations, including those first designated as ‘cartoons.’ Read online at Google.
Et al
Punch Volume 6 (1844)
A British humor, satire and news magazine, famous for its illustrations, including those first designated as ‘cartoons.’ Read online at Google.
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Punch Volume 7 (1844)
A British humor, satire and news magazine, famous for its illustrations, including those first designated as ‘cartoons.’ Read online at Google.
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Punch Volume 8 (1845)
A British humor, satire and news magazine, famous for its illustrations, including those first designated as ‘cartoons.’ Read online at Google.
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Punch Volume 9 (1845)
A British humor, satire and news magazine, famous for its illustrations, including those first designated as ‘cartoons.’ Read online at Google.
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Punch’s Almanack 1848 (1848)
Humorous pictures and a calendar. There is also a special hand-colored version printed on better quality paper. Read for free online at HathiTrust.
John Leech
Punch’s Almanack 1849 (1849)
Humorous pictures and a calendar. Read for free online at HathiTrust.
John Leech
Punch’s Almanack 1850 (1850)
Humorous pictures and a calendar. Read for free online at HathiTrust.
John Leech
The Queen and Mr. Punch (1897)
The reign of Queen Victoria as depicted in editorial cartoons in the pages of Punch. Read for free online at HathiTrust.
John Leech
Linley Sambourne
John Tenniel
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Rebecca and Rowena (1850)
Thackeray imagines what comes after the wedding of Ivanhoe and Rowena.
Richard Doyle (1983)
A biography of the artist, with a review of the critical reception in his own time.
Richard Doyle: His Life and Work (1948)
A short biography, a fairly complete bibliography and many illustrations.
Richard Doyle’s Journal, 1840 (1980)
An illustrated journal kept by the artist when he was fifteen.
Scenes from English History (1886)
A collection of humorous depictions of scenes from English history with explanatory captions by the artist’s brother. In this edition the plates are printed in color, as opposed to Dick Doyle’s Comic Histories, which was published the previous year in black and white.
The Scouring of the White Horse (1859)
A history of the White Horse of The White Horse Vale and of the maintenance of that venerable relic. Read online at archive.org.